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Chapter 2:

The Big disaster

Henry had packed the biggest bag he could carry. "You know you are only staying for one night. Right?" Emma asked him as he dragged himself downstairs the Friday morning. "How are you going to go to school with that giant thing following you around?" she gawked half surprised and completely amused at the boy.

"I'll be okay" he said through heavy breaths. He knew he was only staying for one night but he had to pack everything he could. He wanted to show his other mother everything he had done in the weeks that he didn't spend with her. Artworks, new comic books, and he had even written her a letter that he was planning on giving her as soon as he could.

"Okay. Your choice kid." Emma smiled and chuckled at him. She thought that maybe he'll just put the bag somewhere in class for the whole day as to not have him be bothered by it, and that is the only reason she allowed it.

Mary-Margaret came rushing past them carrying a shopping bag and a sealed cardboard box. She was already half way out the door when she looked back at them. "Wedding plans. Baking a cake. Very late." was all she said before closing the door and Emma was sure she might have heard a faint swear word coming from her former roommate.

"Ready kid?" Emma asked an exhausted Henry.

Emma had dropped Henry off at the school and watched him struggle with the giant bag to class. He first had denied that Emma help him but when he realized he wasn't strong enough to pull it out of the bug he relented. She helped him get it on his back and watched him walk off into the school yard. She laughed a little when he pulled it off his back and decided that it was easier to just drag the thing behind him.

She wondered who was teaching his class now that Mary-Margaret was in full wedding maid-of-honor duty.

She found herself laughing when she thought about him being taught by Alice in wonderland or worse, the Rabbit from Alice in Wonderland. "This is crazy." she laughed to herself before realizing she was late for work. She sped off as fast as her bug would allow making a couple of kids, and a few teachers, look at the yellow contraption in terror as it half skid around the corner.

Emma couldn't decide why she had agreed to this, as she shuffled her feet to make sure she didn't loose her balance and drop Mary-Margaret's 'work of art'.

She had gotten a call while at work, just a few minutes before lunch. Mary-Margaret and Ruby were still over at Ashley's place and apparently her former roommate wasn't kidding when she said she was baking a cake. She had asked Emma to come fetch the cake and take it back to the diner as it will be stored there until the wedding the next day.

The thing was heavy. And humongous. Emma thought that quite literally everyone in town could have a slice and still go for seconds. But it was also beautiful, she had to admit. A three tiered blue silver cake lined with white detailing and what looked like strings of pearls all around the trim. The couple on the top of the cake had already been added and she noticed that they must have been hand carved. There were also blue leaves all around the base that had to have taken hours to design. Emma might have actually adored the thing if it didn't give her a literal pain in the neck.

For some reason the three other women had made Emma carry the thing by herself to her bug and just barked orders as she tried to keep the thing upright. David had taken the cruiser for patrol and Emma was regretting her choice in transport. The cake barely fit into the passenger side of the car, but Emma had maneuvered it in without damaging anything.

"Careful!" Mary-Margaret yelled as Emma closed the door a little too hard for her liking.

Emma couldn't help but throw her a look of disdain as she walked to the driver side. She sighed as the realization came that she will have to take the thing all by her self as no one else can get in.

"We will be at the diner in a few minutes. You go on ahead." Ruby said as Emma climbed into the bug.

"Drive slowly. And no pit stops!" The teacher yelled as Emma drove off as slow as she possibly could.

Emma really did drive slowly. She made her way through Storybrooke at a snails pace and constantly made sure that the cake was still doing okay. The drive took her past the mayors mansion and Emma stared at it while she basically crawled past it in her bug.

She wondered what Regina and Henry would get up to when he went there after school. She remembered the giant bag he had with him and how he stuffed every school book, every report and all his new comic books in it. A part of her was actually yearning to see how the Mayor would react to it. And how she would react when she saw that some of his marks had slipped. Emma knew she would probably get the blame for it and not the fact that Henry was being taught by characters from kids movies.

Emma was so lost in thought that she didn't realize she had sped up. She also didn't notice the cat that had thought it would be a good time to cross the street. Luckily Emma shook herself out of her day dream just in time and slammed on the breaks before hitting the poor creature. But she had forgotten about her precious cargo and watched as a piece of cream slid down her windshield.

She was too shocked to give any reaction. All she could do was watch as pieces of cake dropped, and dripped, from the passenger seat and dashboard. It was a mess. The entire front of the car was now vanilla cream filling.

"No no no no no." Emma finally said as the realization of what just happened set in. She picked up everything she could and tried her best to put the cake back together. It was useless. The cake was ruined.

Emma could see Mary-Margaret already. They had been treating her like a child, lecturing her about everything she does and had done. The worst part of it all... this right here gave them all the reason in the world to do it and Emma thought they might actually ground her. She briefly entertained the idea of just bailing. Thinking now would be as good a time as any to just up and leave Storybrooke for good. She would much rather do that than have to face the maid of honor right now.

But then Emma looked in her rearview mirror and saw the mayors mansion. "Regina." Emma said as she took another look at the abomination in the passenger seat. "Regina can fix this."

She swung her car around as fast as she could. The move gave her a look at the culprit. The cat just sat there on the sidewalk and Emma was almost certain that if a cat could grin, that this cat would be doing exactly that. She also recognized it as one of the missing cats she had gotten calls about. "I'll deal with you later." she scorned at the kitten that just started to lick it's paw like nothing ever happened.

Emma parked her car in Regina's driveway and proceeded to retrieve what was left of the cake. The cake was still heavy, so with no hands, Emma had to use her rump to close the bug's door. She finally made her way to the front door and, with both her hands full, she simply kicked at the door a few times. This move put her slightly off balance but luckily she was able to stabilize herself just as Regina opened the door.

There was silence. Regina looked at what could only be described as a blob in Emma's arms. She also noticed that Emma herself was covered with bits and pieces of cream filling and she didn't know what to make of the scene.

"Aren't you a little too old to be a girl scout Miss Swan?" Regina finally said to break the silence.

"Regina..." Emma started but Regina quickly cut her off not yet finished with her creative comment.

"... or are the ogres having a bake sale?"

"Please Regina this is serious."

Regina could hear the desperation in the blondes voice but still couldn't help but find the whole scene hilarious. She sighed and stepped aside allowing the blonde to enter with her monstrosity. She watched as pieces of cake slip off and unto her floor but even this couldn't make her angry enough to throw the blonde out.

"I'll clean up later. I promise." Emma said when she noticed the mayor staring at the pieces of cake on her floor.

"You better." was all the mayor said before she closed the door.

Emma wasn't sure how she felt at right this moment. They were in the kitchen and Regina had practically thrown herself over the counter, laughing. Emma had told her the entire story of what happened and Regina couldn't help herself. She had never seen the mayor laugh like this. She was almost certain no one had. She looked nothing like the Evil Queen everyone was calling her and Emma thought it must be because she was expecting Henry that day, and she was simply in a good mood. But that didn't mean Emma wasn't slightly hurt by the laughter.

"Some savior you turned out to be." Regina said finally needing air. She wiped the tears from her eyes and then suddenly started laughing again. "I need to find that cat and give it a key to the town." Regina continued laughing as Emma just leaned with her back against the counter and folded her arms. She wasn't laughing.

"Tell me Miss Swan. Is it just in your family's genes to be this idiotic or is it simply coincidence that you all are?" Regina said as she finally found a way to compose herself.

"Hey it can happen to anybody." Emma was about to remind her that Henry also had her bloodline but thought that this might make Regina mad and she would refuse to help her. "Will you please help me fix this?" She pleaded once again.

"How? Do you want me to bake you a new one? Because I'm sorry but we're fresh out of eggs." Regina said still half laughing.

"No."

"Then how?"

Emma waved her hands around. "Magic or something."

"Magic? Have you forgotten my promise to Henry?" the Mayor reminded the blonde.

"You used magic to get me and Mary-Margaret back." Emma argued and a part of her was getting really scared that Regina might actually not help her.

"Yes, but he was with me that time. And I did it to help the two of you."

"And this doesn't count as helping us?" She pleaded.

"I believe this counts as covering up your mess. Besides I would much rather see the look on your mothers face when you disappoint her."

Emma's blood started to boil. She was desperate and the last thing she wanted to do was get lectured by her...roommate. "So I guess you will be having dinner on your own tonight." She didn't really want to do it, but she thought she didn't have a choice. 'Did I really just use Henry as a bribe?' She thought as she questioned her motives and wondered if she was really one of the 'good guys'.

"Don't you dare throw Henry into this." The Mayor wasn't laughing anymore. Instead she was furious.

"You are the one who brought him into this."

"Oh you have gone too far this time Miss Swan." She didn't have to say it. Emma knew she had gone too far but her stubborn nature made it impossible for her to back down.

They continued arguing and was so focused on out-wording the other person that they didn't hear the door opening. They also didn't hear the footsteps that approached them. Regina gave Emma one last comment when she decided enough is enough.

"Fine Miss Swan I will fix your cake for you but don't expect me to behave from now on." Regina raised her hands and pointed them towards the mush on the counter.

Emma caught something out of the corner of her eye just as Regina was about to cast what ever spell she was going to cast.

"Henry!" Emma yelled but it was too late. Regina had cast the spell and it worked. The cake was as beautiful as it was before. The blue leaves, the pearl like trim. Just as if nothing had happened to it. But there was something missing.

"Where's Henry?" a shocked Emma said and looked at Regina who had just as much of a shocked expression decorating her face.

"I...I...don't know." She couldn't speak. The boy was just there and then he was not. Emma took a few steps towards the cake and her eyes widened. Regina saw this and decided to see what Emma was so surprised about.

There at the top of the cake, the hand painted couple stood just as they did before. Only this time they had company. A small hand carved boy stood next to them. Perfectly painted to look just like Henry.

Emma's knees gave out under her and she felt them hit the floor. "Henry." was all she managed to say.

Regina didn't say anything.

"You can fix this right?" Emma pleaded with the mayor, still on her knees on the floor. "Please tell me you can fix this." But Regina stood in silence and Emma could see a tear run down Regina's cheek.

"What have you done?" The mayor finally said.

"Me? You cast the spell!"

"This is all your fault. If you hadn't been such an idiot none of this would have..." She stopped herself. "No. It was arguing that got us into this mess. If I had just helped you Henry..." Regina couldn't stop the tears that started spilling from her eyes.

Emma stood up and, for some unknown reason, she held the Mayor who didn't protest. She simply continued crying into Emma's shoulder. "You can fix this though? Right?" Emma asked once the Mayor had stopped sobbing. Neither of them had noticed that they were still holding on to each other.

"I think so." Regina said through the last few tears.

"See it will be okay. It will all be okay." She said more to comfort herself than Regina.

"But what if I can't?"

"I believe in you. You are Regina Mills." Emma said and squeezed Regina a little tighter.